Open technology and Interoperability event in Slovakia

[Jan Husar]

INVITATION TO ITAPA 2006 CONFERENCE

To be held on 14 – 15 November 2006 in Crowne Plaza Hotel in
Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

The organisers of ITAPA 2006 in cooperation with SKOSI, non-profit
organisation and Sun Microsystems have the pleasure to invite you to
ITAPA 2006, a conference offering the general public several
opportunities to learn about open technologies and eGovernment
interoperability.


The conference will house the Interoperability panel, provided with in
cooperation with the European Commission – eGovernment services, Sun
Microsystems and the Ministry of Transport, Posts and
Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic – eGovernment Department.
All speeches will be simultaneously translated into English and
Slovak. The panel will start on 14 November, 2006 at 04:00 p.m. in
Section C2. Any changes of agenda reserved, please see
http://www.itapa.eu.


Topic: Interoperability, the very essence of eGovernment

Speaker: Serge Novaretti, IDABC - eGovernment, European Commission

Topic: OpenDocument based Data freedom

Speaker: Wouter Tebbens, SELF project, supported by the European
Commission, The Netherlands

Topic: OpenDocument based Data freedom

Speaker: Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems, Open Source Group, Germany

Topic: Interoperability in Slovakia

Speaker: Ján Hochmann, Ministry of Transport, Posts and
Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic

A further opportunity to learn about open technologies is to use free
terminals with Internet access. Visitors will have the opportunity to
discover the Slovak version of the GNU/Linux operating system running
on Sun's Sun Ray thin clients and Sun ULTRA workstations.

In addition, there will be an open technologies stand where ICT
experts will provide information on open technologies, and hand out
miscellaneous materials and free CD's, which will enable to the
visitors to take home a piece of freedom.

ITAPA is accessible to the general public, no admission required
(exclusive of conference print materials, refreshment, etc.).

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